Womens Appreciation Test # 2
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- Antimiscegenation
- the prohibition of marriage between different racial groups
- Cult of domesticity
- victorian ideal that made women responsible for the moral and everyday affairs of the home
- Family household
- U.S. census bureau term for a household maintained with a family or unrelated persons residing together
- Household
- economic unit of thoseresiding together, with a common economic base
- Householder
- term used by U.S. Census Bureau to refer to the person in whose name a household unit is owned or rented
- Marital rape
- forced sexual activity demanded of a wife by her husband
- Nonfamily member
- a person living alone or one where a householder shares the unit with nonrelatives
- Nuclear family
- family structure in which husband and wife reside together with their children
- Family and medical leave act
- federal law enacted in 1993 that requires employers to grant 12 weeks of unpaid leave to a parent to care for new born or adopted children or to care for a sick child, spouse, or parent
- Transnational families
- families whose members live in different countries, usually at a considerable distance from one another, but with a pattern of moving back and forth across national boundaries
- American with Disabilities Act of 1990
- federal law requirement protecting disabled people from discrimination and requiring employers, schools and other institutions to provide reasonable accomodations
- Anorexia nervosa
- condition characterized by severe weight loss and delusions about ones body size
- Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls
- Supreme Court decision in 1991 holding that it is discriminatory to bar women from high-risk jobs in which there is potential harm to a fetus or reproductive system
- bulimia
- eating disorder in which people, typically women, binge on huge amounts of food, followed by their purging through vomiting, laxatives, or extreme fasting
- Eisenstadt v. Baird
- Supreme court decision extending unmarried persons the right to use birth control
- Griswold v.Connecticut
- first Supreme court decision allowing married couples to use birth control
- Infant mortality
- the rate of infant death within a population
- Muller v. Oregon
- Supreme court decision in 1908 holding it constitutional to restrict the working day to ten hours only for women
- Protective legislation
- laws and policies prohibiting women from participating in certain jobs beacause of perceived risks to their reproductive health-generally thought to be discrimiatory, since such protections have not been directed toward men as workers
- Roe v. Wade
- 1973 supreme court decision upholding women's right to abortion
- Androcentrism
- thought that is centered in men's experiences only
- Collective consciousness
- system of beliefs, within a society, that create a sense of belonging to the community and convey the moral obligation to live up to the society's demands
- Feminist theology
- new models of religious belief founded in feminist ethics
- Liberation theology
- interpretations of religious belief that promote resistance to oppresion; common in Latin American societies, but also significant in US social movements against racial and ethnic oppression
- Misogyny
- hatred of women
- Religion as opiate
- idea that religion is a form of social control that discourages social protest by oppressed groups
- Religious right
- the term used to refer to fundamentalist Christian groups that have politically mobilized on behalf of conservative causes
- Sanctified church
- term used to refer to Holiness and Pentecostal churches within the African American community
- Second Great Awakening
- social movement in the early nineteenth century, emphasizing a revivalist and egalitarian spirit in religion
- Digital divide
- the gap that has opened between groups with strong computing skills and those without
- Epistemology
- term derived from the philosophy of science, referring to a theoretical way of knowing
- Scientific method
- method of reasoning common to the practice of science, including systematic observation, analysis of data, and generalization
- Self-esteem
- how well one thinks of oneself
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- term refering to the outcomes that occur as the result of others' expectations
- Standpoint theory
- feminist theoretical argument postulating that the specific social location of the knower shapes what is known and that not all perspectives on social life are valid or complete because of the different positions of knowers within systems of power and privilege
- Stereotype threat
- a concept explaining the pattern wherby students(or others) perceive that they risk being judged by a negative stereotype and thus do not perform as well as they otherwise might
- Title IX
- federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in fedrally funded education programs and activities; part of Educational Amendments of 1972
- Tracking
- the practice wherby groups of students are sorted with groups in school based on their presumed abilities